Lynne Kiesling As mentioned last week, both Mike and I will be at a conference this week, so posting is likely to be light unless something gets in one of our craws, so to speak. I recommend checking out Stumbling and Mumbling, a new-to-me economics blog (thanks to Newmark’s Door for the tip). His insights …
Lynne Kiesling Congratulations to the Northwestern University Fed Challenge team, who have won this year’s Fed Challenge competition! One of team members, Derek Moeller, was also a student in my Environmental Economics class this quarter. Congrats!
Michael Giberson Why are some people left-handed? Here’s some research reported in The Independent: It is known that left-handers tend to suffer more health problems and are at greater risk of serious accidents compared to right-handers. So, all other things being equal, the left-handed trait, which is largely genetic, should have died out long ago …
Lynne Kiesling Upon reflection, I think I may have been a little too harsh on Justice Souter, given that the transcripts are not out yet. He may have been referring to “you” as the state of New York getting ripped off on tax revenues. I stand by my claim, though, that patronizing paternalism is one …
Lynne Kiesling For more on the Supreme Court’s hearing of oral arguments in the interstate wine shipment case, please see Todd Zywicki’s handicapping of how the Justices are likely to vote, and Dahlia Lithwick’s Slate column that offers a spirited and heady summary of yesterday’s arguments. The one that really chaps my shorts is this …
Lynne Kiesling I am glad to see from Virginia Postrel’s recent post that Mark Edmundson is being introduced to Hayek, albeit at perhaps a later stage in his lifelong education than may be befitting the power and importance of Hayek’s ideas. However, I must pick one nit that always grates on me when I see …
Michael Giberson In other FERC news, Platt’s is reporting that Chairman Pat Wood said the Commission would soon approve a policy statement to encourage transmission owners to either join regional transmission operators or completely divest their transmission to a third party. Wood told Platts Monday that the agency at its Dec 15 open meeting will …
Lynne Kiesling The Supreme Court is hearing the interstate wine shipment case today. Two widely-read newspapers opine on the matter, and both agree: free the grapes! From the USA Today: The wine issue is not just a narrow legal one, but part of a broad pattern of state laws designed to shield well-connected industries from …
Lynne Kiesling Tim Worstall has a very entertaining post on a UK patent application. For those of you who, like me, thrive on dry British wit, do make sure to click through to the .pdf of the deputy patent examiner’s response to this particular application, which appears to be a wooly attempt to claim prior …
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday the KP Spouse and I got the tree (a 6′ blue spruce, yum!), decorated it, baked and cooked, and went for a lovely long walk. The first part of our walk took us down Clark Street, past Wrigley Field. Here it was, December 5, temperature in the 40s, and what do we …
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